perhaps they meant ‘dissimulation’. It would be apt.
Comment on New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 65 Unneeded Journals by louella2014
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Comment on New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 65 Unneeded Journals by tekija
Sorry, Elsevier’s already got one.
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/rice-science/
and there are other previous open acces ones
http://www.esciencecentral.org/journals/rice-research.php
so, hardly original any more!
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Comment on New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 65 Unneeded Journals by Derek
Andy, I absolutely agree with you. Sometimes it actually gets ironic. I am at an institution where they just made someone with six publications in Beall listed journals the “Faculty Research Peer Mentor”, to mentor others in research.
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Comment on Two More Predatory Publishers by ENO
Thanks for the post and the thread. Just received a similar message and went online to Google away…
I suppose another perspective is to consider whether these journals offer a legitimate outlet for those scholars from the periphery. Looking at the latest issue and the articles therein, I’m struck by the regional focus as well as the issues being discussed.
Do these journals serve as a vehicle for these authors or practitioners to share their experiences and research? Yes. All valid outcomes given that they would be otherwise unable to compete in a mainstream Tier 1 journal. My takeaway from this is to read the articles with a more critical eye, but not to dismiss them entirely.
If the purpose of publication is to share experiences and create new knowledge, then the journal is doing its job.
Thanks for the post,
Erin
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Comment on Two More Predatory Publishers by Jeffrey Beall
Would you want your children’s doctor to read articles in junk medical journals before he treats them? Would you want the guy who designs the airplane you fly in to use engineering techniques described in “peripheral” journals? Peace and love and flowers are nice, but scholarly publishing should be a serious business as it often deals with life and death.
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Comment on Finnish Man Uses Easy Open-Access Journals to Publish Junk Climate Science by John Mashey
Try
https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&q=svensmark&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_sdtp=
That’s one where somebody has an idea (cosmic rays, if not quite space dust) that might have some effect, but keeps pushing if long after it has been examined carefully and its effect size bounded to be pretty small.
Those include reasonable journals.
Now and then, a poor paper slips through a weak editorial process at some reasonable journal that’s not quite in the same field, and people should have said “not for this journal.”
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Comment on Two More Predatory Publishers by ENO
Point well taken – from a humanities perspective what’s happening abroad is often interesting and admittedly less high-stakes.
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Comment on New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 65 Unneeded Journals by IndRes
The Domain name is blinded.The contact address is US based.Then why you point to South Asia.Do you think there are fools only at South Asia and Europeans are intelectuals.Beall you are biased to Asian countries
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Comment on New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 65 Unneeded Journals by James Morris
My invitation came from Shirley Paul. The description of the journal, “The Scientific Pages of Metallurgical and Material Engineering,” feels the need to explain that mixtures of metal elements are called alloys.
As above, thanks for the service. I see less attention to the ethical issues in physical sciences, but it is definitely there. And it is not just packing publications, but people listing editorial board experience as relevant.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Deepak
Dear Mr Beall,
I note that the Baishideng Publishing Group is not on your list. I attach a mail thread from them, which suggests that they should be on the list.
This is what I received by email yesterday.
Dear Dr. XXX,
First, I would like to extend my sincere congratulations on the publication of your highly cited original article, ,
In view of your significant contributions to the field, I would like to invite you to contribute an original article or a review article to the World Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases (WJCID).
The original articles are submitted by any author and are written as reports of innovative and original findings in the field of infectious diseases.
The review article based on your work will focus on the current status quo of the overall research in the field, highlighting the most important research topics, the problems that have now been resolved and those that remain to be resolved, and the future research directions that may maximize the practical impact on the field.
Once this original article and review article has passed our rigorous peer-review process, it will be published without any Article Processing Charge. In addition, there are no restrictions on the number of words, figures (color, B/W) or authors for this invited submission.
The WJCID is a high quality, peer-reviewed, and open-access journal. In 2015, the WJCID published 3 issues containing 12 articles. For details, please visit: http://www.wjgnet.com/2220-3176/index.htm.
My response is reproduced below:
Firstly, I am not Dr XXX.
Secondly the article “YYY” was NOT written by Dr XXX.
Signed by me
Their reply today is ridiculous:
World Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases reply letter to confirm receipt of the submitted manuscript title
Dear Dr. XXX,
First of all, thank you very much for your full trust in and support of the World Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases!
I am very pleased that you have accepted our invitation and submitted your proposed manuscript title to the World Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Your participation is greatly appreciated.
We will inform you whether your submitted manuscript title is accepted or not within the next 5 working days. The information of the submitted manuscript title is as follows:
Number ID:
Publication Name: World Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases
Author: XXX
Title: YYY
Manuscript Type: Observational Study
Submission Date: 2016-03-03 11:02
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Jeffrey Beall
Thanks for sharing this information. This type of unprofessional spamming is indeed one of the criteria for determining whether a publisher belongs on the list. Overall, is there enough evidence to make a strong case for adding the publisher to the list?
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Comment on New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 66 Journal Titles by Anna
Hi,Beall! what journals can you advise to consider?
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Comment on A True Predator: Austin Publishing Group by dr.nrkhan
Thanks brother for the courtesy and good advice. I have been through the same thing some time back. Best Regards Dr Nauman
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
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Comment on A True Predator: Austin Publishing Group by wkdawson
Don’t laugh. Read: It would be great full pockets of dough … on your behalf … .
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Comment on Bentham Open: Evidence of Article Brokers? by wkdawson
Sorry for being so late to respond to this. I wasn’t notified….
To answer your question, I’ve lived in Japan for 20 years and worked under 6 different bosses of varying quality. Six bosses and 20 years may still be called a limited and subjective sample, but it is apparent in that experience (with some rare but notable exceptions) that the priority on producing sound scientific communication is rather low. On the other hand, my experiences in western countries were not this way (say three bosses and 10 years total).
Yes, publish or perish (unfortunately) compromises everything everywhere. I am not saying that oriental scientists are bad. My point is that they appear not to fully appreciate the purpose of publication. Maybe they see it as 5% of the work rather than 60% (there’s writing and there are journals to read and really know the content of, etc.).
In Western countries, I am sure there are also plenty of people also shirk quality writing, but perhaps due to training or who knows what, quality writing is maybe even less emphasised or less valued in Asia in general, so people don’t understand the value of quality writing.
I am not sure where your “history proves it” comes in. Are you talking about literature in general? Sure. Great writers have appeared in all ages and cultures, and most of their greatest works where hardly valued in any of them during the authors’ lifetime. That goes without saying. However, this is about the modern age, in the scholarly publishing when bureaucrats only use metrics and the values are somewhat at conflict with quality writing to boot. I may have failed to obtain a sufficient size of samples in my life time, but it surely is not an “assumption”, it is a sound observation.
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Comment on Open-Access Journal Publishes Review Article with Questionable CoI Statement by wkdawson
Sorry for the late reply. I wasn’t notified of a comment. I somehow misread the statement thinking Jeffrey wrote something else.
You may be right about questionable publishers, but it is still true that it isn’t in their best interest if they want to redeem themselves and become legitimate.
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Comment on A True Predator: Austin Publishing Group by Janice Flahiff
Oh, sorry I forgot to mention you by name! Every once in a while I get an email “offer” to contribute to or edit a journal. Sure enough, they are always in your list! So I just respond with a link to your site.
My colleagues here in Toledo, OH have independently found your site.
Thank you so much for creating and maintaining “Scjholarly Open Access” https://scholarlyoa.com/about/.
Signed,
A Devoted Fan
(who misses living in West Texas because of so many great camping trips in Colorado)
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Comment on Finnish Man Uses Easy Open-Access Journals to Publish Junk Climate Science by Hugo van den Berg
“Why do so many emeritus professors publish pseudo-science in predatory journals? What attracts them to the Dark Side?” Because most reviewers even for “good” journals seldom know what they are talking about these days; it’s tedious and a short-cut is wanted, since time is running out. Remember, this is their last shot at pursuing their dream of achieving Newtonesque stature in the sciences, with a legacy that resounds down the ages. Even, even, even Roger Penrose, with so much legitimate achievements, has fallen prey to this, though he seems to be strictly an arXiv man.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by KN
Dear Dr. Beall,
You may want to add Donnish Journals (http://www.donnishjournals.org/journals.php) to your list of questionable publishers. I have just received a spammed mail from them.
Thank you.
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Comment on A True Predator: Austin Publishing Group by Mr. Bob
Hi dear i need to ask you about global journal of animal scientific research. you put it in your predatory lists but when you see it it is not agree with the reasons you put to be predatory so could you please tel me more about the journal.
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